Pomegranate Masala Parfait

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I encourage you to make your own probiotic yogurt for this treat to take it to the next level.  You can even biohack your gut by customizing this yogurt and parfait for yourself.  The polyphenols in the pomegranate also feed the SCFA producing bacteria as they convert them into elagic acid, so beneficial for our cardiovascular systems.

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Pomegranate Masala Parfait

Ingredients

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Yogurt:
1 T coconut butter
1 T yacon syrup
2 cups young coconut
1/2 cup water
1/2 t yogurt starter powder

Parfait:

Your completed yogurt
2-3 T freshly squeezed orange juice
1 T Yacon syrup (Hold up! Taste your yogurt first…)
1 pomegranate (seeds from)
1/2 t cinnamon
1/4 t nutmeg
1/8 t cloves
1/2 t ginger
1 pinch black pepper
1/2 t cardamom

Instructions

Please check out the Pomegranate Masala Parfait tutorial video here

Blend all yogurt ingredients until smooth in a high-speed blender. Make sure this does not get too hot

stacks_image_17234Scoop your yogurt into a glass container and leave to incubate in a warm place (108-112 f) for 8-12 hours

Taste your yogurt and when it is done… stop! Refrigerate your yogurt until you are ready to make the parfait

Remove the seeds from the pomegranate and add a squeeze of orange and a sprinkle of cinnamon

Stir the squeeze of orange, spices and sweetener, if required, into the yogurt. Taste and adjust for seasonings

Layer pomegranate mixture and yogurt in a pretty glass jar and serve with a long spoon

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Hazelnut Espresso Adrenal Ice Cream

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Support your sustained energy levels and practice epic self care in a delicious way that enables you to be there to support your friends, family or loved ones and squeeze more joyfulness from your day.  In gratitude.

Hazelnut Espresso Adrenal Ice Cream

Ingredients
  • 1 cup hazelnut cream
  • 1 cup young coconut meat
  • 2 C coconut milk
  • 1/3 C melted coconut butter
  • 1 t vanilla bean powder
  • 2/3 C agave/maple syrup, 3/4 C coconut nectar or 2/3 t Steviaclear drops (I go 1/2 t and then taste and adjust)
  • 2 T dandy blend or other coffee substitute powder
  • 2 t sunflower lecithin
  • pinch Himalayan salt
  • 2 T ashwagandha powder (optional, or more)
  • 2 T astragalus powder (optional, or more)
  • 4 dropperfulls of ginseng (optional, powder is ok too)
Instructions

Blend all ingredients thoroughly and freeze according to your ice cream makers’ directions.

You can also freeze as popsicles or if you don’t have an ice cream machine this can be frozen and then blended to make soft serve and to take full advantage of that deluxe blender that you own!

Make this probiotic by prefermenting your hazelnut and coconut cream, using Using L. rhamnosus for this may help to decrease anxiety and depression, increase feelings of wellbeing and raise norepinephrine levels.

To make the hazelnut cream:
soak 1/2 C hazelnuts for 8 hrs
rinse hazelnuts and blend with 1 C water
strain

To make the coconut milk from desiccated/shredded coconut:
soak 2/3 cup desiccated coconut overnight (or 8 hrs… just to make it easier to blend)
blend with 2 C water
strain through a nut milk bag

To make the coconut milk from fresh coconut:
(best ever)
bust open your coconut cathartically (I literally throw mine on the ground until it cracks but there are more sophisticated methods, I consider it stress relief, adrenally speaking)

Remove the meat from the inside. It’s not pretty but it’s worth it.  This can be made easier by warming the coconut in the sun or in a low oven until the flesh starts to separate from the husk, I don’t usually do this.

Peel the brown parts off the coconut meat with a vegetable peeler. You will totally know what I mean if you are doing this.

Blend 2/3 cup of coconut meat with 2 C water

Strain through nut milk bag

If you have leftover coconut meat you can freeze it to use next time

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Arugula Sea Salad

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This salad features arugula, spinach, garlic, spirulina, nori, pumpkin, sunflower and hemp seeds for some of those essential minerals and amino acids for healthy serotonin and dopamine production.  Our digestive motility is regulated by serotonin along with our digestive enzymes and fluids.  It is important to have healthy minerals for stomach acid production and to support these neurotransmitters in the gut for small intestinal bacterial balance.

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T = tablespoon
C = cup

Arugula Sea Salad

Ingredients

1/2 cup hemp seeds
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
2 green onions, chopped
2 T red onion, chopped fine
1 T capers (optional)
1 clove garlic
1 t spirulina
2 T nori pieces (torn, cut with scissors or preformed into sheets, torn)
Salt and pepper to taste

1 cup sunflower cashew cheese, optional

6 cups mixed spinach and arugula

Instructions

Blend together the hemp seeds, apple cider vinegar, garlic and spirulina until smooth

Pulse in chopped green and red onions and capers (if using)

Stir in sunflower/cashew cheese if using to create a chunky texture

Serve your chunky blue “cheese” dressing on top of arugula and spinach and top with nori as a garnish for a tasty sea salad!

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Sea Vegetable Salad Topper

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I often keep salad toppers in my purse just in case I end up eating somewhere strange and opt for the salad.  I have been known to keep a lemon in my purse too so that I would have everything I need to uplevel  my salads in unknown places.  This salad topper is also great to have on the table in a jar, replacing salt for everyday lunches and dinners.

This topper is ultra-lightweight and a little goes a long way so just a couple of tablespoons in a small container can turn your salad from blah to bam instantly and doesn’t cost any energy to carry around.

I have listed this recipe in “parts” rather than quantities so that you can make as much or little as you need.

This salad topper takes advantage of the mineral rich benefits and flavours of sea vegetables

Salad Topper Ingredients

3 parts dulse flakes
1 part kelp flakes
2 parts nutritional yeast
*optional pinch of cayenne or smoked paprika
*optional garlic or onion powder

(I use both optional ingredients, my favourite is with the smoked paprika)

You can try using garam masala or a curry spice blend or Italian seasonings instead of the optional ingredients listed above. Try to make something that makes you happy to opt for salad even if your dining companions order foods you used to enjoy.

Instructions

Mix everything by hand in a bowl, store in a container and sprinkle over salad

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Strong Mama Superfood Sauce

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The more I learn about folic acid being added to foods the more compelled I am to stay away from nutritional yeast, although you can get a folic acid free brand and add some to the recipe if you like.  Until I can find a source of organic unfortified nutritional yeast nearby I’m taking it easy on the stuff.  Today I felt like adding a bit of that cheesy.

Strong Mama Superfood Sauce

Ingredients
  • 1/3 C cultured almond cheese (good for the bacteria!)
  • 1/3 C flax oil
  • juice of 3 limes
  • 2/3 C spring water
  • 2″ turmeric root
  • 1/2 t chipotle powder
  • 2 T miso
  • 2 T Muira Puama (optional)
  • Trace minerals or other liquid add-ons if you’d like
  • 4 drops stevia or two dates
Instructions

Blend all ingredients in a high speed blender. Serve overtop a bed of greens with your favourite kraut if desired.

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